Word: comprehendible
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...However, he goes on to argue that error in war is unavoidable: “We all make mistakes. What ‘the fog of war’ means is that war is so complex that it’s beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables...
...again the S&P 500's best-performing segment, rising 59% this year, even though that segment has experienced a 5% decline in the previous 12 months of earnings. This remains an industry dogged by sluggish corporate spending and huge amounts of excess capacity. So it's hard to comprehend why the stock market is valuing a dollar of tech earnings three times as highly as a dollar of earnings from nontech...
...item writers should feel free to use literary terminology in their questions for the reading section. Words that one would typically use only in a literature class--simile, personification--had always been avoided on the SAT, on the theory that a student should get credit for being able to comprehend the phrase "Youth is wasted on the young" even if he doesn't know to call it a paradox. No more. Although the committee decided that the most arcane lit terms (metonymy, for instance) won't appear on the SAT, terms like simile are now fair game...
...savvy investor, curl up with a 10-Q instead. Such is the advice of veteran financial journalist Michelle Leder in Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value. She doesn't expect you to read all 300 pages of a company's financial statement or try to comprehend complex derivatives. The most crucial section is the footnotes, where many companies bury bad news. An attentive reader can spot the red flags: inflated growth assumptions for pension assets, a subsidiary controlled by a son-in-law, lots of synthetic leases. Then get your money out. Compare the most recent reports...
...continue to bash the French as well as most other foreigners because Americans don't understand--and don't measure up to--most foreigners. Very few Americans are bilingual or multicultural, as many foreigners are. Foreigners are just better educated than Americans. One often criticizes things one does not comprehend. We Americans simply don't understand the French and never will until we become better educated, multilingual and multicultural--in other words, more sophisticated, like the French! ANN VAIDEN Florence...